气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): A Stakeholder-Systems Analysis of Water Provision in Rural Alaska

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DOI	10.1021/acsestwater.3c00612
	A Stakeholder-Systems Analysis of Water Provision in Rural Alaska
	Lapatin, Michaela; Ritsch, Nicola; Armanios, Daniel Erian; Albertson, Leif; Katz, Lynn E.; Faust, Kasey M.
发表日期	2024
EISSN	2690-0637
起始页码	4
结束页码	2
卷号	4 期号:2
英文摘要	People are paramount in the operations of water infrastructure systems. While such processes are similar throughout most communities in the United States, including treatment and distribution, each community encounters localized challenges. In the Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta of Alaska, specifically, water sector professionals (e.g., water plant operators and water haulers) encounter unique and extreme challenges. The harsh arctic weather makes road navigation dangerous for water haulers, and water plant operators must contend with a precarious supply chain when ordering supplies for maintenance. Such challenges can disrupt water provision for communities. In this study, we analyze semistructured interviews with 24 Alaska water sector professionals, using qualitative content analysis and semicognitive mapping. We built a conceptual integration of systems and stakeholder theory to identify barriers to water provision and leverage points for improvement. We examine three components of the water provision process in rural Alaska communities: water treatment, hauled water distribution, and piped water distribution. We show that to increase workforce retention, limit worker burnout, and ensure reliable water provision, practices including training and certification need to become more localized. Moreover, working conditions and operating environment around the worker need to be more central in water system considerations, especially for water hauling, where workers play a critical role in water distribution. This analysis reveals a key conclusion that underlies all our propositions: people are a leverage point for water provision improvement. In so doing, we contribute to the literature in public administration and bureaucracy, sociotechnical systems, and stakeholder theory as applied to infrastructure systems, more generally, and water systems, more specifically.
英文关键词	operations; infrastructure; stakeholders; systems; rural; Alaska; training
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Water Resources
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Water Resources
WOS记录号	WOS:001161340400001
来源期刊	ACS ES&T WATER
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/299522
作者单位	University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Carnegie Mellon University; University of Oxford; University of Alaska System; University of Alaska Fairbanks
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lapatin, Michaela,Ritsch, Nicola,Armanios, Daniel Erian,et al. A Stakeholder-Systems Analysis of Water Provision in Rural Alaska[J],2024,4(2).
APA	Lapatin, Michaela,Ritsch, Nicola,Armanios, Daniel Erian,Albertson, Leif,Katz, Lynn E.,&Faust, Kasey M..(2024).A Stakeholder-Systems Analysis of Water Provision in Rural Alaska.ACS ES&T WATER,4(2).
MLA	Lapatin, Michaela,et al."A Stakeholder-Systems Analysis of Water Provision in Rural Alaska".ACS ES&T WATER 4.2(2024).